Searching for tweets that mention a person
Reply tweets always begin with @username ,but plenty of tweets mention users by including @
username somewhere within the tweet text. It could be a retweet, a shout out to someone, an
acknowledgment of an original post, a FollowFriday recommendation, or whatever. For these
types of tweets, you can search for updates that include a reference to a user, possibly also filtered
with other search criteria.
To search for tweets that mention a user with the Advanced Search page, follow these steps:
1. Click the Advanced Search link in a Twitter search page. The Advanced Search page
appears.
2. In the Referencing this Person text box, type the Twitter username of the person
whose mentions you want to search.
3. Use one or more of the text boxes in the Words section to specify which tweets you
want to match.
4. Click Search. Twitter displays a list of tweets that mention the person and that match
your other criteria.
To search for a user’s mentions from the Search box, use the @ operator, which you insert
immediately in front of the username. In figure 6.17 I’ve put together a search query that looks for
mentions of the user wordspy that contain the text RT (so they’re retweets)
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